On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:52:26 -0800, Doug Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>You lightweights- I went to college in Boulder, and I was living in a 
>basement apartment 1/4 mile from NCAR the night in January 1982 when 
>their anemometer died at 137 mph.  Must admit I was surprised the house 
>was still above me in the morning, though.

So you *admit* you were indoors!  Can't really call it weather, if
you're indoors.  :-)

I like gales and storms and such.  It's just that they're sometimes
inconvenient.  Like when the wind is a steady 70 mph and you have to
walk several blocks to the store to get some Pine-Sol for field day.
I was getting hit in the face with pebbles up to 4 mm across.  I had
to go back to the room and put on my flak jacket, dust goggles, and
helmet (the soft cover offered me all the head protection I needed,
but I had felt like an idiot walking around with my hand on my head to
keep my cover on).  For leg protection I used mind over matter, "If
you don't mind, it don't matter."

Then there was the metal kite in the typhoon...

-R

--
"...And the last thing I remember is asking,
'What could go wrong?'"
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